OUR TOP STORIES
- Bowraville Murders: The gift of tears
Bowraville Murders is a searing documentary in which the families involved open their tormented hearts in a cry for justice. - Less TV drama, more companies. Is this the end of the world?
Scarey numbers or evidence of tenacity? Queensland researchers capture headlines. - Stan announces new local originals: Bad Behaviour, Ironside, and more Bump
Stan doubles down on high-school drama, true crime, and feelgood holiday flicks with its new Australian productions
THE PEOPLE BEHIND PRODUCTIONS
- Bringing truth to fiction: a chat with MIFF winner Brietta Hague
Journalist and filmmaker Brietta Hague talks about her MIFF-winning Australian short film ‘Baltasar’, shot in Barcelona. - Racing against time to build worlds and create films with Unreal Engine
A filmmaker leaps into Unreal Engine with a games lecturer, and discovers a new world of production that leads him to prestigious festivals. - Pasifika Pride and the power of visibility
Filmmaker Jessica Magro has many reasons to celebrate the artistic success of Pacific Islander hip-hop artists. - Cult of the Lamb: a look behind the scenes with Melbourne’s Massive Monster
Melbourne studio Massive Monster shares the ethos behind Cult of the Lamb, a folk-horror base-building dungeon-crawler.
REVIEWS & WHAT’S ON
- Film Review: ‘Annette’ is an exhilarating masterpiece
Annette is an inventive and audacious musical collaboration between auteur Leos Carax and pop pioneers Sparks. - Bowraville Murders: The gift of tears
Bowraville Murders is a searing documentary in which the families involved open their tormented hearts in a cry for justice. - September’s Streaming highlights on Netflix, Stan, ABC iview, Amazon Prime, Disney
From Minari to MIFF premiere fund films, here’s what’s streaming in September. - Game Review – Twelve Minutes mistakes shock for substance
An A-list Hollywood cast can’t help the fact that Twelve Minutes ultimately has nothing of value to say. - TV Review: Netflix ‘Clickbait’ is polished pulp storytelling
The Melbourne-made Netflix series is bingeworthy, shocking, but a little hollow, writes Anthony Morris. - Game Review: Psychonauts 2 flaunts a wonderfully bizarre world
Psychonauts 2 features the same high caliber of fantastically unusual environments and characters that made the original a cult classic.
CAREER ADVICE & OPPORTUNITIES
- Rode offering $250,000 major prize in annual short film competition
Australian microphone manufacturer Rode is offering an abundance of prizes in their latest short film competition. - Your games career as a: Studio Manager
What does a studio manager do? We shine a spotlight on the skills and specificities of different game development careers. - Gameloft offers a new internship – with an undisclosed salary
Screen Queensland and Gameloft Brisbane have partnered on an exciting new internship program, but the application raises some red flags.
INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
- Box Office – Bottom of barrel for everyone
COVID is really dragging the sector down now, in between US box office releases. - Less TV drama, more companies. Is this the end of the world?
Scarey numbers or evidence of tenacity? Queensland researchers capture headlines.
IN PRODUCTION
- Stan announces new local originals: Bad Behaviour, Ironside, and more Bump
Stan doubles down on high-school drama, true crime, and feelgood holiday flicks with its new Australian productions - Netflix and NBCUniversal order production on Irreverent in Queensland next month
Irreverent is the third NBCUniversal production to film in Queensland as part of the state’s production attraction strategy - Angus and Julia Stone release surprise album, a game soundtrack for Life Is Strange: True Colours
Australian folk duo Angus and Julia Stone return to score narrative adventure Life is Strange: True Colours. - New Broken Roads trailer stars Uncle Jack Charles, as game signs with Team17
Broken Roads has just signed with Team 17, and dropped a new trailer narrated by legendary Indigenous actor, Uncle Jack Charles
